ARE ALİ İSMAİL KORKMAZ’S MURDERERS REALLY UNIDENTIFIED?

TURKEY – A security camera footage from the street where Ali İsmail Korkmaz was assaulted displays what was going on moments before he was attacked.

According to expert witness report 18 minutes of the recording, including when Korkmaz was beaten up, had been erased.

There is also another video footage circulating on internet which shows the possible suspects having a conversation with the police straight after the incident.

Ali İsmail Korkmaz was brutally beaten by a group wearing civilian clothes as he was trying to escape a police tear gas attack. 19-year-old university student is the fourth protester to die so far in the Gezi demonstrations, after Mehmet Ayvalıtaş in Istanbul, Abdullah Cömert in Antakya and Ethem Sarısülük in Ankara. Ayvalıtaş, 20, was hit by a car during the protests and Cömert, 22, died after receiving a hit to his head. Sarısülük, 26, died from his wounds on June 14 after being shot by police in the head.

In regards to the death of Ali İsmail Korkmaz, Güngör Azim Tuna, the Mayor of Eskişehir, stated that ‘some groups might have beaten their own friend to put the blame on police.

There are suspicions that his murderers are undercover police and the public is concerned about evidence being destroyed by authorities. Similar concerns were voiced in Ethem Sarısülük’s case.